Before letting human coders off to AI coding agents, consider this study: “letting AI write your code looks like a double-edged sword, with increases in coding speed counteracted by similar increases in human code review time and effort.“
I also assume, work for human coders gets more boring and less innovative if you have to spend more time reviewing code in stead of producing it (this is the case w text) - anybody can comment on that?
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/10/ai-coding-agents-generate-more-code-but-not-more-software/
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